Re: Disable File Checking Boot Parameter

2020-12-08 Thread Alan Pope
ite long for each boot (Pressing Ctrl-C does nothing). > Do you have a bug tracking the fact that CTRL+C doesn't work? -- Alan Pope Developer Advocate Canonical - Data Center Development +44 (0) 7973 620 164 alan.p...@canonical.com http://ubuntu.com/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel

Re: Ubuntu Daily MD5 Check

2020-03-18 Thread Alan Pope
the Ubuntu discourse. https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/defaulting-to-verify-the-image-integrity-before-installing-on-desktop/13472 Cheers, -- Alan Pope Developer Advocate Canonical - Data Center Development +44 (0) 7973 620 164 alan.p...@canonical.com http://ubuntu.com/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailin

Re: My opinion on Ubuntu cancelling Intel 80386/80386-clone processor support

2016-09-07 Thread Alan Pope
ere's a company called Kingspec who sell new PATA SSDs, still. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingspec-128GB-Solid-Notebook-Laptop/dp/B00HWOYY72 Good for bringing a speed boost, and life to older computers. I know a few people who use them, and swear by them. Cheers, -- Alan Pope Community Manager Can

Re: mmutable Page

2016-04-22 Thread Alan Pope
st as long as editing the page and causes more work for numerous people. Just join the team on launchpad, logout and back into the wiki and then edits can be made. Cheers, -- Alan Pope Community Manager Canonical - Ubuntu Engineering and Services +44 (0) 7973 620 164 alan.p...@canonical.com http://ub

Re: mmutable Page

2016-04-21 Thread Alan Pope
t a perfect solution. It's now harder for people to do drive by edits, and we (admins) are getting numerous spurious requests to join the team every day and have that extra workload to deal with. We're also investigating other options of course. Thanks for alerting us to the omission. That

Re: Immutable Page

2016-04-21 Thread Alan Pope
reason to make it extra hard to help? > Blame spammers completely covering the wiki with dodgy links. We had to do something and this was the least worst option, sorry. Cheers, -- Alan Pope Community Manager Canonical - Ubuntu Engineering and Services +44 (0) 7973 620 164 alan.p...@cano

Re: Wubi

2015-08-25 Thread Alan Pope
. Cheers, -- Alan Pope Community Manager Canonical - Product Strategy +44 (0) 7973 620 164 alan.p...@canonical.com http://ubuntu.com/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: Wubi

2015-08-25 Thread Alan Pope
Hi, On 21 August 2015 at 14:01, Dimitri John Ledkov x...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 21 August 2015 at 13:53, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote: On 21 August 2015 at 13:45, Michael Hall mhall...@ubuntu.com wrote: Modern Windows releases broke Wubi, so we stopped shipping and supporting

Re: Wubi

2015-08-21 Thread Alan Pope
:~/Downloads⟫ sudo mount -o loop ubuntu-15.04-desktop-amd64.iso ./iso [sudo] password for alan: mount: /dev/loop0 is write-protected, mounting read-only alan@deep-thought:~/Downloads⟫ ls -l iso/wubi.exe -r--r--r-- 1 root root 2573712 Oct 17 2014 iso/wubi.exe Cheers, -- Alan Pope Community Manager

Wubi

2015-08-21 Thread Alan Pope
. This doesn't seem to have happened. If we don't plan on fixing these (new user) facing issues, is it time to retire wubi from the images? Cheers, Al. [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi/+bug/1471344 -- Alan Pope Community Manager Canonical - Product Strategy +44 (0

Building against libsmbclient-dev:armhf

2015-06-09 Thread Alan Pope
various other samba packages including libsmbclient but I get the same issue every time. Suggestions welcome. -- Alan Pope Community Manager Canonical - Product Strategy +44 (0) 7973 620 164 alan.p...@canonical.com http://ubuntu.com/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Ubuntu Touch File System

2015-05-19 Thread Alan Pope
and other data. Google is your friend. :) http://askubuntu.com/questions/610640/where-are-sms-and-mms-stored Cheers, -- Alan Pope Community Manager Canonical - Product Strategy +44 (0) 7973 620 164 alan.p...@canonical.com http://ubuntu.com/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel

Re: Updater can't update kernel due to disk space

2015-01-14 Thread Alan Pope
with arcane command line tools. Cheers, -- Alan Pope Community Manager Canonical - Product Strategy +44 (0) 7973 620 164 alan.p...@canonical.com http://ubuntu.com/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Drop Gwibber from default install

2012-03-15 Thread Alan Pope
and taking ages to load avatars:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aES6c1vub9Y Both of these just recorded on a core i7 / 8GB with not a lot going on. Cheers, - -- Alan Pope Engineering Manager Canonical - Product Strategy +44 (0) 7973 620 164 alan.p...@canonical.com http://ubuntu.com/ -BEGIN PGP

Re: [Oneiric-Foundations-Topic] networked client app updates

2011-04-21 Thread Alan Pope
On 21 April 2011 16:14, Allison Randal alli...@canonical.com wrote: - Only ship a very small shim for the client on the CD (advantage of small footprint), and do the rest of the install the first time someone uses Ubuntu One. This is what dropbox does albeit a download and not on CD, and it

Re: Default Desktop Experience for 11.04

2011-04-08 Thread Alan Pope
On 8 April 2011 18:38, Patrick Goetz pgo...@mail.utexas.edu wrote:  I'm assuming most developers and power users use point to focus, as we do.  Having the menu in the taskbar creates a unique problem for point to focus users; https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/674138 Al. --

Re: Is Ubuntu commited to free software?

2010-06-09 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Danny, On 9 June 2010 17:57, Danny Piccirillo danny.picciri...@ubuntu.com wrote: Of course it is! At least according to our philosophy: http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/our-philosophy Still, many people don't think that Ubuntu is truly committed to free software in practice.

Re: Booting and login - why are users not logged in automatically?

2010-03-24 Thread Alan Pope
On 24 March 2010 14:10, Phillip Susi ps...@cfl.rr.com wrote: On 3/24/2010 9:54 AM, Evan wrote: Why? I'm sure there are reasons, but my initial reaction is that any computer which can easily be stolen (ie laptop/netbook) should NEVER have auto-login enabled. Why?  Given physical access to the

Re: ubuntu-bug reports too much;

2010-03-19 Thread Alan Pope
On 19 March 2010 12:55, Rene Veerman rene7...@gmail.com wrote: by the looks of it i can't even delete 'm from launchpad.. :S You can. On the right hand side see Bug attachments. Click 'edit' next to the one you want to delete then click Delete attachment button. Cheers, Al. --

Re: Accounting Program

2010-03-07 Thread Alan Pope
On 7 March 2010 19:47, Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com wrote: Of course. It would be silly not to reuse what we already have available and of course just as silly to not position it with other things in mind. Have you looked at OpenERP? It exists already, is written in python, is in the

Re: Including usb-modeswitch in default installation?

2010-02-07 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Timo, On 7 February 2010 14:16, Timo Jyrinki timo.jyri...@gmail.com wrote: a) Is anyone aware of some earlier discussions on the topic wrt Ubuntu and b) Would everyone agree that it would make a lot of sense? Perhaps if some of the more irritating bugs in usb_modeswitch and network_manager

Re: The 9.10 boot loader progress bar

2010-01-25 Thread Alan Pope
2010/1/25 Amahdy mrjava.java...@gmail.com: Here is the middle of thing, have the splash splitted out into two parts, the upper is the graphical splash and the lower part is the traditional text-boot with [green(OK)] or [red(fail)] Even maybe with a scrollbar to scroll through the log if

Re: Ubuntu Help Center

2009-12-23 Thread Alan Pope
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:16:07PM -0800, Shentino wrote: Just curious, would adding a support ticket system of some sort help? Not sure about the nitty gritties of how they work under the hood but it's a common support feature I've observed in other systems both amateur and

Re: Icons in Place and System

2009-10-13 Thread Alan Pope
2009/10/13 George Farris farr...@cc.mala.bc.ca: No that turns on icons for everything.  I'm saying that Applications and Places have icons but System doesn't and that looks unfinished and not consistent.  A paper cut if you will. Indeed, I have thought for a while that there was going to be

Re: Karmic might scare users about hard disk dying

2009-10-07 Thread Alan Pope
2009/10/7 Przemysław Kulczycki przemekkulczy...@gmail.com: Hi devs. I'd like to point your attention to a bug which might be frequently noticed after Karmic is released: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-disk-utility/+bug/438136 Sorry, I thought it might be a dupe of

Re: Testing karmic currently impossible?

2009-09-15 Thread Alan Pope
2009/9/15 Markus Hitter m...@jump-ing.de: It's a pretty generic Dell with a Core 2 Duo, intended to run desktop- amd64. Any idea on how to get back on track? Go to bed and test some more tomorrow. There's been some fairly major changes in the boot process, including stuff like dbus and gdm

Re: Why Ubuntu is not ready for prime time

2009-08-27 Thread Alan Pope
2009/8/27 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com: 2009/8/27 Jonathan Taylor gring...@gmail.com: I have tried Ubuntu several time over the past 5 years.  I usually get so frustrated that I go back to Windows XP.  This week, I installed Ubuntu 9.04 on my Laptop.  I spent yesterday trying to install

Re: Why Ubuntu is not ready for prime time

2009-08-26 Thread Alan Pope
2009/8/26 Mat Tomaszewski mat.tomaszew...@canonical.com: - Ubuntu documentation (help.ubuntu.com) – very information-rich resource but very beginner-unfriendly (lots of technical jargon) - Forums – lots of information noise, very difficult to locate the right thread (or even find out where to

Re: The google custom search - perhaps it went there by itself?

2009-07-27 Thread Alan Pope
2009/7/27 Sebastien Bacher seb...@ubuntu.com: Wouldn't it make sense to rather try contacting the maintainer or the ubuntu mozilla team about the issue or to open a bug on launchpad so you can get a reply from the people doing the changes? ..or read his blog post about it :)

Re: Remove F-Spot from the LiveCD

2009-06-22 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Sense, 2009/6/22 Sense Hofstede se...@qense.nl: 2) I mentioned removing Mono from the LiveCD because when F-Spot is gone, just one Mono application remains on the LiveCD: Tomboy. Tomboy is something that's definitely worth including on the LiveCD. However, this single program does require

F-Spot Import Was: Replace Tomboy with Gnote?

2009-06-20 Thread Alan Pope
2009/6/20 Vincenzo Ciancia cian...@di.unipi.it: I have nothing against mono myself but in my opinion rhythmbox and gthumb cover the basic needs one may have. I sometimes wanted to use f-spot but the fact that it copies all the pics in its own folder gives  an alien and feeling to it, in the

Re: Replace Tomboy with Gnote?

2009-06-19 Thread Alan Pope
2009/6/17 Danny Piccirillo danny.picciri...@ubuntu.com: Let's all refrain from a mono flamewar. 2009/6/19 Danny Piccirillo danny.picciri...@ubuntu.com: And sadly, Banshee (mono) may soon be replacing Rhythmbox in Ubuntu Lets not go down that road huh? Al. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing

Re: Ubuntu Gaming Team

2009-04-26 Thread Alan Pope
2009/4/26 Jan Claeys li...@janc.be: Op vrijdag 24-04-2009 om 09:08 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Danny Piccirillo: Alright, i'll bottom-post for you =] Now also try to snip away irrelevant text from what you quote.   ;-) That makes it much faster to read mail! It's also faster (and

Re: dynamic executables ?

2009-04-22 Thread Alan Pope
2009/4/22 Vincenzo Ciancia cian...@di.unipi.it: Il giorno mer, 22/04/2009 alle 15.19 +0100, richard ha scritto: richar...@richard-g8jvm:~/eagle-5.5.0/bin$ ldd ./eagle         not a dynamic executable The output from file eagle? Assuming it's eagle the circuit board design software, then

Re: jaunty DVD

2009-04-01 Thread Alan Pope
2009/4/1 richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk: Is this a known bug or do I file a new bug report ? Tip: Read the release notes at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/jaunty/beta specifically http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/jaunty/beta#Known%20issues Some users of Intel i8x5

Re: aufs based upgrade tests

2009-03-20 Thread Alan Pope
2009/3/18 Alexander Sack a...@ubuntu.com: Is there any reason why we don't overlay /home? Just so that you can test upgrade for existing configs? That would fail for users who make one-time changes to their data. For example users who download their mail via pop. If they upgrade using aufs and

Re: Alt-SysReq-K in some cases nonfunctional.

2009-02-15 Thread Alan Pope
2009/2/15 Mike Jones eternal...@gmail.com: Could someone please explain to me what REISUB is? I have never heard this term before, and as I said before, I am a programmer by trade, with better than just basic knowledge about operating systems and such, so I am a bit thrown off. It's the

Re: CAB loss, fake logins etc

2009-02-15 Thread Alan Pope
2009/2/15 Alex Cockell alcock...@eclipse.co.uk: Umm -please forgive me, but you mention that removing the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace three-key-salute was proposed for removal two years ago... Has this been made absolutely clear to preinstall manufacturers in time for them to print new manuals? This

Re: too complicated

2009-01-07 Thread Alan Pope
2009/1/7 Richard Tattersall tatter_s...@msn.com: CLI is also useful for support/guides, because rather than lots of click here, then here, then here all you need is to copy and paste commands in a terminal. I suspect this is where many of our new users are introduced to the command line. We

Re: too complicated

2009-01-07 Thread Alan Pope
2009/1/7 Remco remc...@gmail.com: On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: It is. Maybe we should go through the wiki doing a global replace of apt-get install with click apt:// :) (note for the humour impaired, this is not a serious suggestion, but you get the idea

Re: What are the release dates of Ubuntu 8.10.x

2008-11-30 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Francesco, 2008/11/30 Francesco Fumanti [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Could anybody please tell me when the updates of Ubuntu 8.10 will be released? What makes you think 8.10 _will_ have a respin/update to the ISO? As far as I can see only LTS (Long Term Support) releases (6.06 and 8.04 so far) have

Re: Setting up Ubuntu 8.04.1 development system with no Internet

2008-11-21 Thread Alan Pope
2008/11/21 Terry Sikes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I did run across the idea of apt repositories on DVD, is anyone aware of such .iso files for developer tools (8.04 compatible)? It'd be great to just use Synaptic with a DVD. Repo on a usb disk/stick? That way you can take it to another machine to

Re: Cruft Remover (system-cleaner): testing help?

2008-11-09 Thread Alan Pope
2008/11/9 Dean Loros [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Where is the white-list located? I have several extra programs installed would like to verify that this part works...you can respond here, PM me thru ubuntuforums or contact me at autocrosser1 at gmail.com See the bug report listed in the first mail.

Re: rename system-cleaner-gtk to cruft-remover-gtk

2008-11-03 Thread Alan Pope
2008/11/3 James Westby [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Perhaps we need some sort of tool installed by default that removes packages that are no longer needed, and may be considered cruft :-) I'd agree the word cruft is unsuitable given the fact that it's a geek phrase. By way of an unscientific test I

Re: rename system-cleaner-gtk to cruft-remover-gtk

2008-11-03 Thread Alan Pope
2008/11/3 Markus Hitter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: To add my own $ o.o2, I'd very much like to see a tool or Synaptic feature which tells me about the differences between a standard install and the current set of installed packages. One can purge package by package until {Synaptic, apt-get,...} wants

Re: trackerd in Gutsy

2007-09-09 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Martin, On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 13:44 -0700, Martin Olsson wrote: I noticed that trackerd is running by default in Gutsy Tribe 5. Is this information sent to Canonical? trackerd is a daemon that indexes your files so that the tracker applet can find content for you on your computer quickly.